Cat Quotes - Page 9

• Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.

  Stephen King

  Animal, Fire, Law

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Nov 30, 2013

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• [A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.

  Theophile Gautier

  Loneliness, Sadness, Hours

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• 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

  Lewis Carroll

  Mad, People, Deep Life

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• I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.

  Jules Verne

  Believe, Earth, Spirit

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A cat may look at a king.

  John Heywood

  Kings, Looks, May

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• Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

  Karel Capek

  Shadow, Prowling, Humans

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• I've found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character

  P. C. Cast

  Character, Gauges, Way

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cute, Self, People

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• Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.

  Raymond Chandler

  Fashion, Tree, Tails

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.

  T. S. Eliot

  Thinking, Names, Everyday

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• Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat?

  George Clinton

  Feels

  Song: Atomic Dog, Album: Computer Games

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• Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Home, Animal, Men

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• Just watching my cats can make me happy.

  Paula Cole

  Pet, Make Me Happy

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• We quickly discovered that two kittens were much more fun than one.

  Allen Lacy

  Fun, Two, Kitten

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• Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops. A human caress from a cat. I felt very meagre and ill-educated that I could not purr.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Looks, Paws, Intense

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• Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.

  Jasper Fforde

  Friendly, Extinction, Form

  Jasper Fforde (2012). “The Last Dragonslayer”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Science, Math

  Quoted in John D Barrow Pie in the Sky, Counting, Thinking and Being (1992).

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• Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?

  Tennessee Williams

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Giving Up

  Tennessee Williams (1971). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Cat on a hot tin roof. Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer”

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• Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being? There's a real lack of evidence from change from actual species to a different type of species.

  Michele Bachmann

  Real, Cells, Different

  "Michele Bachmann Said What?!" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. June 6, 2011.

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• People think that mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit, it’s the stuff we CAN understand. It’s cats that are complicated.

  John Horton Conway

  Simple, Thinking, People

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• When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Long, Looks, Littles

  "How to Hide Your Cat from the Landlord: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Living in Harmony with a Compatible Feline in Smaller Spaces". Book by Jasmine Kinnear (p. 87), April 6, 2006.

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• We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

  Ron Reagan

  Children, Gambling, Pet

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• A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.

  John le Carre

  Writing, Watches, Pads

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• Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Time, Funny Cat, Cute Cat

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• A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin.

  Fred Schwab

  Sleep, Pet, Fats

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